[130] leaves ; 23 cm (4to)

Title page varies from other recorded copies: without contents, but instead with ornate zylographic initial 'S' followed by two lines of text only, the whole reading "Speculu[m] humane vite."

For the arrangement of the tracts, which can be found in any order, by quires, see BM and Sack, Vera. Die Inkunabeln der Universitatsbibliothek und anderer offentlicher Sammlungen in Freiburg im Breisgau und Umgebung (Wiesbaden, 1985) 3084

Signatures: a-l⁸ m¹² n-y⁸ (n1=blank)

Chancery quarto; a4 recto: 29 lines, 153 x 94 mm; types: 185G (title), 106G (text); printed initials and initial spaces with guide letters

Imprint derived from colophon (y8 verso): Finit felicit[er] liber excellentissimus. Speculu[m] hu[m]ane vite nu[n]cupatus imp[re]ssus Bisuncii Anno d[omi]ni Milesimo.CCCC.Lxxxviii

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.116 no.2 runs through leaf y8, containing only the first tract (the Speculum humanae vitae). In this copy, the title leaf, which is integral to the edition and conjugate with a8, is for the Speculum only and is not present in other examples. Leaf dimensions: 204 x 139 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.116 no.2 with early/contemporary and later marginalia. See no.1 for full description.

BOUND WITH: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.116 no.2 bound with Legrand, Jacques. Sophologium. Lyons: Jean de Vingle, 1495 (ISTC im00048000)

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